Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-09-09

run TO the OuCpOSJS OF JnaJ Tealm lneJ
say that the sun never sets upon the English
empire; but have to tell you that on this
realm of woman's influence, eternity never
marks any bound. Isabella fled from the
Spanish throne, pursued by the nations
anathema; but she who is queen in q home
will never lose her throne, and death itself
will only be the annexation of heavenly prin-
cipalities
When you want to get your grandest idea
of a queen, you do not think of Catharne OF
Russia, or of Anne of England, or Marie
Theresa of Germany; but when you want to
get your grandest idea of a queen, you think
of the plain woman who sat opposite your
father at the table, or walked with him arm
in-arm down lifes pathway; sometimes to
the thanksgiving banquet, sometimes to the
grave, but always tOgether-soothing your
petty griefs, correcting your childish way
wardness, joining in your intantile sports,
listening to your evening prayers, toillnG
for YOU with needle or at the spinring
wheel, and on cold nights wrapping you up
snug ana warm Ana tnen at last on that
day when she lay in the back room dying,
and you saw her take those thin hands with
which she toled for you so long, and
put them together in dying prayer that
commended you to the God whom she had
taught you to trust. o, she was the queenl
The chariots of God camo down to fetch her;
cannot think of her now without a rush of
tenderness Unat SUITS the deep foundations or
your soul, and you feel as much a child again
as when you cried on her lap; and if you
could bring her back again to speak just once
more your name, as tenderly as she used to
speak it, you would be willing to throw your
self on the ground and kiss the sod that covers
her, crying "Mother Mother!n All she was
the queen-she was the queen. Now, can you
foil mo hnxy J,ooY1U fbOIIcaud 1,1ilac a TvonoaI1
like that would have to travel down before
she got to the ballotbo Compared with this
work of training kings and queens for God and
eternity, how insignificant seems all this
work of voting for aldermen and common
councilmen and sheriffs, and constables, and
mayors, and presidents. To make one such
grand woman as have described how many
thousands would you want of those people
who go in the round of godlessness, and
fashion, and dissipation, distorting their
body until in their monstrosities they seem TO
outdo the dromedary and hippopotamus go
ing as far toward disgraceful apparel as they
dare go, so as not to be arrested by the police
their behavior a sorrow to the good ana a
caricature of the vicious, and an lnsutto that
God who made them women and not gorgons;
and tramping on down through frivolous
and dissipated life, to temporal and eternal
famnation!
o woman, with the lightning of your soul,
strike dead at your feet all these allurements
to dissipation and to fashion, Your immor-
tai soul cannot bo fed upon such garbage
God calls you up to empire and dominion.
Will you have it? o, give to God your
heart give to God your best energies; give
to God all your culture; give to God all your
refinement; give yourself to HIM, for THIS
world and the next; Soon all these prlgnTI
eyes will be quenched, and these voices Will
be hushed. For the last time you will look
upon this fair earth. Fathers hand, mothers
hand, sisters hand. chld's hand will be no
more in yours. 1t will be night, and there
will come up a cold wind from the Jordan,
and you must start. Will it be lone woman
on a trackless moore All, mol Jesus will
come up in that hour and offer His hand and
He will say: "You stood by Me when you
were well; now will not desert you when
you are sickn One wave of His hand and
the storm will drop; and another wave of His
hand, and midnight shall break into mid
noon; and another wave of His hand, and the
chamberlains of God will come down from
the treasure houses of heaven, with robes
lustrous, blood-washed, and heaven-glinted,
in which you will array yourself for the mar
riage supper of the Lamb. And then with
Miriam, who struck the timbrel of the Red
Sea: and with Deborah who led the Lords
host into the fight; and with Hannah, who
gave her Samuel to the Lord and with Mary,
who rocked Jesus to sleep while there were
angels singing in the air. and with Florence
Nightingale, who bound up the battle-wounds
of the Crimea, you will from the chalice OF
God drink to the souls eternal rescue. -,
One twilight, after had been playing with
the children for some time | laid down upon
the lounge to rest. The children said, play
more. Children always want to play more:
And, half sleep and half awake, seemed
to dream this dream: 1t seemed to me that
was in fardistant land-not Persia, al
though more than Oriental luxuriance
crowned the cities; nor the tropics-althoug
more than tropical fruitfulness filed the gar
dens; nor Italy-although more than Italian
softness filled the air. And l wandered
around, looking for thorns and nettles, but
found none of them grew there. And
walked forth and | saw the sun rise, and
said:
"When will it set againn' and the sun sanl
not. And ] saw all the people in holiday ap
parel, and said: when will they put OF
| workingman's garb again, and delve IN thu
mine, and swelter at the forgeN but neither
the garments nor the robes did they put Off
And | wandered in the suburbs, and said
'Where do they bury the dead of this grea
ctyF" and looked along by the hills wher
! il would be most beautiful for the dead tt
| sleep, and | saw castles, and towns
and battlements; but not mausoleum
nor monument, nor white slab could
see And l went into the great chapel o
the town, and / said "Where do the poo
worship? where are the benches on whicl
they SITE and voice answered. I'VE hav
no poor in this great city, And wandered
out seeking to find the place where were tn
novels of the destitute; and found mansion
of amber and ivory, and gold butno tear no
sigh did seeor hear. was bewildered; ant
l sat under the shadow Of great tree, and
said: "What am |, and whence comes al
thisf' And at that moment there cam
from among the leaves, skipping
up the fowery paths and acros
the sparkling waters, very bright an.
sparkling group; and when saw their step
knew it, and when | heard their voices
thought I knew them; but their appare
was so different from anything l ha'
ever seen | bowed, q stranger to strangers
But after awhile, when they clapped thei
hands, and shouted: "Welcome welcome!
the mystery was solved, and | saw that tim
had passed. and that eternity had come, an
that God had gathered us up into highe
home and said: "Are we all hereF and tn
voices Of innumerable generations answered
Here;" and while tears of gladness were rail-
ing down our cheeks, and the branches {
the Lebanon cedars were clapping thel
hands, and the towers Of the great city wei
Ginning their welcome, we began to laugl
and sing, and leap, and shout: "Hom
Homel Home"
Then l felt a child's hand on my face, an
1t woke me. The children wanted to pla
more. Children always want to pla
more.
Save the Boys.
A young man was led to the gallows. II